St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01

pray but himself. He has been doing faith
fnl work Self-made young man and doing
the work OF his master with fidelity. And we
have asked him this afternoon to take this
service aud run it and we ask you to pray
Gods blessing upon him. and pray that he
may nave great outpouring of the spirit upon
himseli and upon what he uuters as he
preaches it. May this be Il service that shall
be sanctihed 10 the good OF us all
BROTHER HALL. SPEAKS.
Here Brother Hall stepped forward and
preached, taking as his text Hebrews Xiii, l.:
wv therefore,, seeing we also are comprised
about with so great cloud of witnesses let us
lay aside every weight and the sin which doth
SO easily beSet us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before u.s. looking unto
christ, etc. Sam Small here closed the SER
vices By abiding to the sermon of Brother
Hall and making the following remarks:
am glad We have had the opportunity of
nearing this good man speak OF many OF his
experiences IN the West. and speak his heart
and soul and mind concerning Christ and con-
corning Christian living. l trust the Holy
Spirit Will take his words and make
them useful and profitable for good
To all our souls. Cries of Amen. |
May God help him as he goes back TO his field
OF labor; may God give him strength and
power and light and peace ana joy through
the Holy Ghost, and may he be enabled TO lay
aside all weights that may at any time any
where hinder him in the important labors he
must perform in the great field that has been
opened to him. He is helping TO lay the
foundations of the Montana of the future.
Just such men as he, who come out here in
this pioneer country long before you ever
turned your eyes toward Minnesota, long be-
fore you and Minnesota had any acquaint-
ance with each other; those young men who
came, fired by the zeal for God and Christ, to
plant the first foundations of Christianity
here in Minnesota; they have gone on 10 their
a
revered throughout the whole country So
our Brnther Hall and his colleagues in Mon
tana are but doing
THE PIONEER WORK
out there, laying the foundations of the
House OF God, aud Cody lives, and Chris
tanity, and formulating forces that are to
give it its prosperity in the future. And
may God bless him, strengthen him, and give
him great success in His field of labor. AS to
ourselves let US get practical good out of
this. You believe Jesus Christ can forgive
sins. You believe that the Holy Ghost can
convict men OF sin. How did you get your
notion to sin anyhow? Where did you find
out what sin was? Who told you? The
preacher? A good many preachers in this
country are about as denSely ignorant about
sin us they are about Il great many other
things A great many preachers in this
country have got manners, and customs, and
fashions, and fashions mixed up with sin. and
good many preachers will tell you you
must lay aside your jewelry, and you must
not wear standing collar, and
some viii tell you you must not
wear any collar at all, because it besets you
and you can't rare and charge around the
pulpit as well with standing collar on as
you could if you didn't have any collar at all.
A preacher can't tell you what sin is. He
can tell you some of the particulars that ne
has read and seen and experienced. You go
to relying on preacher to tell you what sin
is and keep you out OF sin and you'll get left
somewhere along the line. Who is it that is
going to tell you, and how are you going to
find out What is sin and what is not sin, and
where did you ever get conception of SIN,
and where did you ever get really Deep
soulful conception of what sin is? You
never got it anywhere in this world except
from the teachings of the Holy Spirit. That's
where you got 1t. There is many question
comes up in a mans mind. Many questions
with reference TO his daily life. Ought / to
do this or not? Would it be right Tor me to
do this ? Would it be?
ACCORDING TO CHRIST
for me to do this? And would it offend the
Spirit of God, and would 1t offend against His
law and against His will? How do you ever
settle that question: There is only one place
where you can ever settle it, and it Is on your
knees with the Spirit of God, and the Holy
Spirit Will teach you whether it is right or
whether it is wrong. Many question comes
up in my own life to-day, and nobody can tell
me anything about it. They can give me
their opinion about it, and that is based upon
some particular experience Of their own in
their own life. But as to whether it is sin or
not, there is no opinion that can lead me cor
recty to the truth, as to the truth as it is, ex-
cept the Holy Ghost. When the Holy Ghost
teaches me that thing is sin, / will die, God
being my helper, before will go into 1t; and